Don Murray (writer)

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Donald Morrison Murray (1923 – December 30, 2006) was a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, and long-time teacher (eventually Professor Emeritus) of English at the University of New Hampshire. He wrote for many journals,^{[citation needed]} authored several books on the art of writing and teaching, and served as writing coach for several national newspapers.^{[citation needed]} Writing for the Boston Herald, he won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, "for a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy." For twenty years, he wrote the Boston Globe 's "Over 60" column, eventually renamed "Now And Then."

On Writing

Murray chronicled his relationship with writing until the day he died. In a column published just before his death, he wrote, "Each time I sit down to write I don't know if I can do it. The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can." His final column was published in the Boston Globe five days before his death.

Books

• Man Against Earth: The story of Tunnels and Tunnel Builders (J.B. Lippincott. Philadelphia, 1961).
• The Man Who Had Everything (novel) (New American Library, 1964).
• A writer teaches writing: a practical method of teaching composition (Houghton Mifflin, 1968).
• Learning by Teaching (Heinemann, 1982).
• Expecting the Unexpected (Heinemann, 1989).
• Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem (Boynton/Cook, 1996).
• Write to Learn (Harcourt Brace, 1998).
• The Craft of Revision (Harcourt Brace, 1998).
• A Writer Teaches Writing (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1990).
• The Literature of Tomorrow: an anthology of student fiction, poetry, and drama (1990).
• My Twice-Lived Life: A Memoir (Ballatine Books, 2001).
• The Lively Shadow: Living with the Death of a Child (Ballantine, 2003).